Nikolaus Meinrath, his wife Maria, and sons (Mathias, age 15; Johann, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Nicolaus Meinrath, his wife Maria, and sons (Mathias, age 16; Johann, age 10¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Nicolaus died in route.
Michael Löbe [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]sons (Mattias [Meinrath], age 15½; Johannes [Meinrath], age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 12. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767. [See Löw Family.] A note accompanying the 1767 census records that that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
Widower Johannes Meinrath (age 33) is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm55 along with a note that he is a paralytic.
In 1793, Jakob Meinrath moved from Wittmann to Ober-Monjou.
Orphan Christian Meinrath (age 4) from Wittmann is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om24.
In 1822, Christian Meinrath was exiled from Ober-Monjou.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meinrath family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 873.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Om24, Wm55, Mv3020.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7108.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4590-4593.
Brent Mai